Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Sep 2005 11:55 UTC, submitted by ghen
Matt Dillon has announced that the next release of DragonFly BSD will use NetBSD's pkgsrc as its official package management system, instead of "dfports" (FreeBSD's Ports with DragonFly overrides), which had already been abandoned by developers in favour of pkgsrc over the last few months. pkgsrc is a portable package management system, developed by NetBSD, and supports DragonFly officially since October 2004.
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RE: The same system do NOT mean they are compatible
by jjezabek on Fri 2nd Sep 2005 13:53
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And how does this apply to the announcement or any of the previous comments?
Also - when you use the same package repository for 2 OSes where will you get the different major versions of typical libraries from? I'd say the only thing that will differ is the 'core' which is pretty much standarized by ANSI C and POSIX.
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Compatibility requires a lot more than that, such as the same version of different libraries. Binary compatibility can be remedied by simply distributing source, but in many cases two systems are not even source compatible because they use completely different major versions of a typical libraries.